Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 2 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 3 | Yeah th that was , that was the that was my point about the size of the country , and I think |
| 4 | As the thirties was our last great depression it commands comparison with the great depression of the eighties . |
| 5 | Anyway , somehow we managed the financial crises and , having done so , every time electricity costs increased , the broader were our smiles . |
| 6 | The nameless , the humble , the ignorant and the overlooked were his chosen material , to be recorded and given their true place , and if possible to be transformed by love . |
| 7 | The Almighty was something of an embarrassment to the BBC of late , ever since He had ceased to be the exclusive property of the Church of England . |
| 8 | The judges responded by saying that the ‘ purpose ’ of the accused was something which could be defined objectively . |
| 9 | The second was his residence in France during the French Revolution : this direct encounter with the main movement of the age led Wordsworth into constant political agony and debate , and it is significant that one of the main characters in The Excursion , his other long poem , is the Solitary , a despondent figure disillusioned by the failure of the Revolution . |
| 10 | The second was his insistence , not so common in his day , that any poetry worthy of serious attention had to display high technical competence . |
| 11 | The second was his unrivalled ability to project his authority to Algeria and to the army . |
| 12 | So it was the heaviest was it ? |
| 13 | But the Seventies were ours . |
| 14 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 15 | Oddly enough the worst was his shoulder , where the man had seized it to pull him out of the car . |
| 16 | On the left were his sisters , May , in Australia , and Alice , gone on the first available post-war ship to America and her man . |
| 17 | On the left were our immediate neighbours , the Guttentags . |
| 18 | Miguelito the magnificent was hers for the taking , and she had sent him away , frills and all . |
| 19 | It occasionally spent a whole day on ‘ policy review ’ discussions , and by the end of the 1970s was itself devolving more discussion to the individual operational units . |
| 20 | They said they 'd changed the wheel in about three minutes flat , I said well it was n't Friday the thirteenth was it ? |
| 21 | The French mathematician Descartes remarked on the similarity between this sort of toy and the behaviour of animals , arguing that the latter were nothing more than automatons whose reactions were constantly triggered by events in the environment ( Jeannerod 1985 ) . |
| 22 | I guess the fifties was my favourite period for the blues and so the guys that were making records — most of the Chicago people who were playing in the fifties and who are still around — are the ones that I am always interested in playing with . ’ |
| 23 | The Damned was one . |
| 24 | ( The smaller was her private luggage ; the larger , which she called her public luggage , was full of pamphlets . ) |
| 25 | Where rationalism was inclined to search for ‘ the eternal truths of reason ’ , and to disregard or dismiss from serious consideration anything more mundane , the Romantic was one who sought to appreciate and sense the rich diversity of life and wonder over its multifarious forms and expressions . |
| 26 | The fifth and the sixth was it ? |
| 27 | But the unexpected was what actually happened . |
| 28 | The Arctic was everything I expected it to be , and much more in the way of high seas than I had bargained for . |
| 29 | For the marine hobby the 1960's were anything but good . |
| 30 | The first was its close fit with observed inheritance . |